“There is no poverty greater than the poverty of serious mental illness as experienced by the last outcasts of our society. This website seeks to effectively raise awareness for the mentally ill and create an awakening of the American conscience by telling to truth of mental illness to all Americans. Once we have heard the truth, we can begin to eradicate the stigma which has been the biggest stumbling block in getting millions of Americans the proper medical and social benefits they so desperately need.”

And to help support the cause, Martin did a public service announcement about mental illness.

9 comments to “Martin Sheen Makes A PSA On Mental Illness”

Shame on the media for making a mockery of Charlie Sheen, who is so obviously suffering from a full blown manic episode most likely associated with a serious mental illness. Where is our compassion, people?

I typed up a really long post praising martin sheen for this, but it got deleted when the page didn't reload properly. Oh well. I'm not gonna type it all again, but I was basically thanking Martin Sheen for bringing such a serious issue to everyone's attention. Most folks have no idea that a huge percentage of the American homeless are suffering from a mental illness. Therefore, making it a lot harder for them to get the help that they need. It also makes it worse when a mentally ill person abuses drugs and alcohol- it's like adding fuel to the fire. I was also talking about specific examples of the subject, such as the large amount of those types of people in the outskirts of las vegas. Oh, and how one street over from my place in Virginia there is a recently renovated area that has been losing business because of all of the mentally ill folks getting kicked out of halfway houses. But anyways, I hope more celebrities follow in Martin Sheen's path with this. God knows, its much better than a lot of the other PSA's that celebrities have put out the past few years. =/

just because someone is ranting that the boss closed the show down doesnt make them 'mentally ill' just makes them really really annoyed
if charlie was mentally ill like people seem to be alluding then he wouldnt of done the show for 8 years as he couldnt sustain it that long …

charlie is a walking P.S.A THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS…AND THE MEDIA MAKING A CIRCUS OUT OF THIS IS GOOD…MARTIN/BROOKS FAMILY SEEM TO HAVE NO PROBLEM LETTING THEIR GRANDKIDS STAY IN THIS SITUATION..THEY COULD EASILY GET A JUDGE TO INTERVENE…YET THEY LET THESE BABIES LIVE WITH 2 MENTALLY ILL PARENTS..SHAME ON ALL OF YOU………P.S..CHARLIE INVITED THE CIRCUS TO TOWN..

Re: Jann Durkin – You know that he and his father are not the same person, right? It must be really painful for him to watch his son go through this in front of the whole world. I bet you're in no position to judge anyone.

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